A Book of the Seasons: April 19.

April 19.

To-day you can find arrowheads, for every stone is washed bright in the rain.

To-day is a day

you can find arrowheads  

washed bright in the rain. 

April 19, 1852

Within a few days the warblers have begun to come. They are of every hue. Nature made them to show her colors with. There are as many as there are colors and shades.

Warblers – every hue.

There are as many as there

are colors and shades

April 19, 1854

I think it is the smallest duck I ever saw. Floating buoyantly asleep on the middle of Walden Pond.

Little duck asleep

in the middle of the pond,

head on its back.

April 19, 1855

A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau
"A book, each page written in its own season,
out-of-doors, in its own locality.”

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